Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• SA2E: spatial-aware auto-encoder for cell type deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41863296 · PMC13070677 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Full-text index only

  SA2E is a spatial-aware auto-encoder framework for cell-type deconvolution that does not require predefined cell-type biomarkers

  olfactory legacy breast brain simulated real scrna-seq

• SpaJoint: a transfer learning method for spatial transcriptomics deconvolution.

  PMID 41955028 · PMC13069903 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 1 setups

  Full-text index only

  SpaJoint is a transfer-learning-based deconvolution method that integrates scRNA-seq and ST gene expression while accounting for spatial correlation across spots.

  simulated spatial

• Ultra-precision deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics decodes immune heterogeneity and fate-defining programs in tissues.

  PMID 41862467 · PMC13168514 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Full-text index only

  UCASpatial is a novel deconvolution algorithm that uses Shannon entropy-based gene weighting combined with weighted non-negative least squares to estimate cell-type composition from spatial transcriptomics data

  simulated colorectal hippocampus ear simulated runtime spatial

• SpaNiche: spatial niche analysis to explore colocalization patterns and cellular interactions in spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 42015285 · PMC13231777 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  SpaNiche integrates smoothed cell-type abundance and ligand-receptor expression matrices via graph-regularized joint NMF, across multiple spatial views, to identify colocalization patterns

  lymph colorectal prostate cerebral simulated spatial scrna-seq

• VISTA uncovers missing gene expression and spatial-induced information for spatial transcriptomic data analysis.

  PMID 41507434 · PMC12891734 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  VISTA predicts unmeasured gene expression in subcellular spatial transcriptomic data by integrating scRNA-seq and SST through variational inference and geometric deep learning with built-in uncertainty quantification

  brain breast embryo muscle imaging-based sequencing spot-based

• Single-cell spatial transcriptomic analysis of human skin anatomy.

  PMID 41872488 · PMC13083264 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  MERFISH-based spatial atlas of ~1.2 million cells resolves 45 cell types across 114 samples and 15 anatomic sites in normal human skin

  normal skin gtex matched merfish scrna-seq bulk

• Spatial Transcriptomics of Human Decidua Identifies Molecular Signatures in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss.

  PMID 41031483 · PMC13242933 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Full-text index only

  The human decidua contains two coherent spatial domains, the implantation zone (IZ) and glandular-secretory zone (GZ), corresponding to the decidua compacta and spongiosa

  first-trimester decidual spots dnk 10x h&e type

• S3RL: Enhancing Spatial Single-Cell Transcriptomics With Separable Representation Learning.

  PMID 41556263 · PMC13042551 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Full-text index only

  S3RL is a separable representation learning framework that denoises sparse spatial transcriptomic data and enhances biologically relevant signals by integrating gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features.

  dorsolateral dlpfc nanostring spatial cell-type multi-platform

• FineST: contrastive learning integrates histology and spatial transcriptomics for nuclei-resolved ligand-receptor analysis.

  PMID 41839892 · PMC13201544 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  FineST, a bimodal contrastive learning model integrating histology (Virchow2 ViT features) and spatial gene expression, enables nuclei-resolved high-resolution RNA imputation.

  colorectal crc breast he-stained spatial type ccc

• Multi-omics feature engineering driven by biomedical foundation models improves drug response prediction for inflammatory bowel disease patients.

  PMID 41844950 · PMC13129071 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  FM (MAMMAL)-derived drug-target binding affinity (BA) inference can be used to rank/select biologically relevant protein targets and their associated genes/SNPs for a drug of interest without knowledge of protein structure or active sites

  reference top surgical snp-mutated inference gene genomic

• Spatial transcriptomics unveils immune cellular ecosystems associated with patient survival in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

  PMID 42010788 · PMC13102037 · Oncoimmunology · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  DLBCL tissues are organized into six recurrent, spatially defined cellular ecosystems (Cell-Eco) with distinct immune compositions, transcriptional programs, and neighborhood architectures.

  dlbcl cd45+ spots scrna-seq spatial scrna-seq cell-type

• Genomic capacities for Reactive Oxygen Species metabolism across marine phytoplankton.

  PMID 37098087 · PMC10128935 · PloS one · 2023 · 8 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 38

  Genes encoding superoxide (O2•−) scavenging are ubiquitous across phytoplankton, but their fractional gene allocation decreases with increasing cell radius, consistent with a nearly fixed core gene set.

  diverse annotated same comparative enzyme trait

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals altered communities and drivers of aberrant epithelia and pro-fibrotic fibroblasts in interstitial lung diseases.

  PMID 41576947 · PMC12985369 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  snRNA-seq census of 227,680 nuclei across 48 cell types reveals altered cellular states and compositional rewiring of the distal lung in ILD

  frozen lung flash-frozen spatial single-nucleus scrna-seq 10x

• Spatially resolved osteoblast-traced transcriptomics uncovers TGF-β as a combination target with sclerostin in osteoporosis.

  PMID 41927532 · PMC13046724 · Bone research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Full-text index only

  Spatially resolved osteoblast-traced transcriptomics (lineage tracing + SLACS) identifies TGF-β signaling as a regulator of osteoblast activation state on quiescent bone surfaces

  dmp1-creert2 gfp+ spatial mc3t3-e1 spatially cell-type gsea

• Spatiotemporal Transcriptomics Characterizes Immune Microenvironment During Mouse Liver Aging.

  PMID 42010880 · PMC13096584 · Aging cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Full-text index only

  T cells are the immune cell population with the most pronounced transcriptomic alterations during liver aging

  liver nash cirrhotic hcc scrna-seq snrna-seq stereo-seq

• Resolving sensitivity, specificity and signal contamination in Xenium spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 42062553 · PMC13259927 · Nature methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  Xenium data show strong consistency across patients and technical replicates, with little technical variation between platforms

  ffpe matched xenium xenium single-nucleus immunohistochemistry

• STAN, a computational framework for inferring spatially informed transcription factor activity.

  PMID 41521668 · PMC12784991 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  STAN, a linear mixed-effects (spatially weighted regression) model, integrates TF-target gene priors, gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features to predict spot-specific TF activity in spatial transcriptomics data

  lymph glioblastoma breast dorsolateral spatial scrna-seq

• Integration of multi-omics and machine learning strategies identifies immune related candidate biomarkers in inflammation-associated hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

  PMID 41080564 · PMC12510942 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Seven key immune-related genes (RNF165, SNCA, SRGN, MARCO, STEAP4, SIGLEC9, TKT) are associated with HCM by intersecting DEGs with MR-identified eQTLs

  left eqtl degs merged bulk two-sample functional

• A Transcriptional Map of Human Tonsil Architecture: Beyond the Sum of (Single Cell) Parts.

  PMID 41518352 · PMC12790319 · European journal of immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Full-text index only

  Imaging-based spatial transcriptomics (CosMx SMI) captures tissue complexity and cellular composition more faithfully than scRNA-seq

  palatine same tonsil cosmx imaging-based immunofluorescence scrna-seq

• Charting spatial ligand-target activity using Renoir.

  PMID 42086556 · PMC13144314 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Full-text index only

  Renoir computes a neighborhood activity score for curated ligand-target pairs at each spatial spot/cell by integrating cell type abundance, cell type-specific mRNA abundance, receptor expression, gene entropy, and mutual information between ligand and target genes.

  intestine triple-negative dorsolateral dlpfc semi-synthetic spatial single-cell